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November, 2016 Volume 29 Number 11Our Motto: “All The News That Fits ... Gets Printed”

Next Meeting: Thursday, November 17th, 2016Meeting Start: 6:30 PM

Handley-Meadowbrook Lions Club 6013 Craig Street Fort Worth, TX

Inside This IssueThis Month’s Program 1

Making Good Shavings 3

Calendar 5

Christmas Banquet 6

Club Challenge 8

Last Month’s Critique 14

S. Gary Roberts 16

Empty Bowls 22

Mentors 24

Drying Box and Item Photographyby Marty Kaminsky

I began my interest in photography andwoodworking while still in elementary schooland by the time I was in high school I taughtboth subjects at the Toledo (Ohio) Central YMCAYouth Department. In 1974 I graduated fromThe University of Toledo with a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree in Electrical Engineering. While astudent, in addition to my engineering courses, Itook several art courses including sculpture,glass blowing, design, and calligraphy. After col-lege I taught photo courses for The Lima (Ohio)Arts Association.

My engineering career, starting at Ohio’s Standard Oil Company led meto Texas in 1980 where I worked for Exxon, Cain Chemical, Occidental

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Chemical, Contech Engineering, and S&B Engineering. While an engineerI also provided photographic images used in brochures, presentations, anddisplays. I have exhibited photography, jewelry, and wood-turnings in shows at The Lima Arts Association, The ArtsAlliance at Clear Lake, Innuendo Gallery in Galveston,San Jacinto College, Fleury Gallery (Houston), and else-where. For several years I taught photography andjewelry/metalsmithing in the art department of San Ja-cinto College South, and I have taught woodturning andphotography at the Gulf Coast Woodturning Associationand the Southwest Association of Turners (SWAT) sympo-siums. I’ve had a one-person show of photographs and woodturnings at

the San Jacinto College Marie Flickinger Fine ArtsCenter Gallery. Currently I have pieces in theshow “Turning Point: Woodturning’s Evolutionfrom Ancient Craft to Fine Art” at the Pearl Finch-er Museum of Fine Arts inSpring, Texas.

I live in exotic San Leon,Texas with my wife Martha(who promotes meshamelessly) enjoying abeautiful view of GalvestonBay.

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President's report for November 2016

● Welcome to our new members: Michael Wright and McCulleWright. We now have 207 members.

● Our club is a chapter of the American Association of Woodturners(AAW). If you are not a member you should be. The AAW offersmany programs to help you learn and enhance your turningexperience. The November issue of Woodturning Fundamentalswas just released… a great tool for beginners and advancedturners along with the American Woodturner Journal, videosources and much more. Not sure, go to Free 60 day guestmembership and check out all of the advantages.

● We are doing a new club directory for 2017. We will be takingphotos of all registering members whose photo is not in the 2015directory. See James Haynes’ article in this newsletter for moreinformation.

● Bob Wiggins sure left the November challenge open for your owninterpretation. You could turn a bird house for a hummingbird oran eagle, if they lived in houses, or even a tree ornament. Don’tforget yours this Thursday.

● If you have any good woodturning tools that you can live without,James Haynes would like very much to have them donated to ourChristmas raffle. Please bring them to James at this meeting.

● Our last month’s challenge did not provide quite enough tablecenter piece turnings for the Christmas banquet. JohnLauderbaugh could use 7 or 8 more. Please bring your donationto John Thursday.

● It is time for yearly dues. James will be taking your $24 startingthis Thursday. Please bring a check or correct cash as he doesnot take plastic. This of course does not anywhere near cover

... makingGood Shavings

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our club expenses so it is very important to do donate one, ormore, of your fine turnings to our Christmas auction. It is just asimportant to actively bid on your chosen piece at the Christmasbanquet. See James’ article in this newsletter.

● See you at 6:30pm Thursday and be safe.

Glynn CoxPresident

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Calendar of Events

Nov 17th - Regular Monthly meeting 6:30 PM, Lions Club, Demonstrator: Marty Kaminsky - “Drying Box and Item

Photography”

Dec 10th - Christmas Dinner

Jan 26th - Regular Monthly meeting 6:30 PM, Lions Club, Demonstrators:

George Freeman - “What You Never Knew About Wood”Dr. John Blatman - “Wood Toxicity – Cause and Cure”

Sign-up for Alan Lacer’s classes in April opens.

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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Location: Handley Meadowbrook Lions Club, 6013 Craig Street, Fort Worth

The Banquet begins with the food preparation.There will be ham, turkey, pulled pork, and beef brisket as the main course,with vegetable, breads, salads, and desserts that are brought by each member.

Drinks, (cokes, tea and coffee) are supplied by the Club, as are the plates and utensils.You need to bringyourself and other members of your family (kids are welcome) along with a dessert and either a salad or avegetable, and immerse yourself in a warm, friendly environment. Surprisingly, the conversations are notcentered around turning… at least not until the “Great Auction” begins. After the meal, we will begin theprogram that consists of selling Raffle tickets for the big Raffle, distribution of the door prizes, drawingfor the Raffle prizes, and finally the grand is the Auction of the turnings donated by the members (which

we are still accepting). Typicalraffle items from previous yearsinclude things such as:mini lathe, gift certificates, turningtools, turning wood, and other miscel-laneous items.

Please remember that eachfamily is asked to bring adessert p lu s your choice ofeither a salad or avegetable.

S c h e d u le :4:00 PM - Set up (tables, chairs, plates, utensils, drinks)5:00 PM - Arrive, socialize (work up appetite).If you can arrive earlier,

it will be greatly appreciated.5:30 PM - Meal6:30 PM ‐ Door Prize drawing, Raffle and Auction (bring lots of $$$ for the

auction) Also, start working now to turn some items for the auction.

Things to Bring to the Christmas Banquet

● Yourself and your family including children and parents(but leave Fluffy and Spike at home.)

● Your appetite along with a dessert AND your choice of either a salad or a vegetable.

● Some of your favorite turnings that you would like to donate to the live auction.This is one of the major sources of income for our club to be able to

provide the quality programs that we provide.● A big roll of cash for the raffle and the live auction. Raffle tickets and auction

items can also be paid for by check.

may payYouyour 201 7 dues

at the banquet.

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NEW 2017 DIRECTORY

Work has begun on a new 2017 pictorial directory.

If you are one of the 88 current members for which we do not have aphotograph, your help is needed.

Your 2017 preprinted membership renewal form will have the message,“Picture Needed for New 2017 Directory” in the upper right corner.

Photographers will be available to take your picture at the November17, 2016, January 26, and February 23, 2017 meetings.

If your picture was in the 2015 directory, but you would like a retake,feel welcome to have that done.

Please assist in the timely completion of this project.

WNT Board of Directors

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Who’s up for a Challenge?This month it was exciting to see the different types of table

decorations for the holiday party that were turned. The variety ofcenterpieces turned showed that our members are both creative andimaginative The challenge program’s goal is to encourage all membersto participate and to grow their capabilities Our challenge for October was to turn a table decoration for theholiday party. Twenty-Six (26) members participated with over 29centerpieces turned. This was a different challenge in that memberswere donating these turnings to be given away at the holiday dinner.Below is a list of members who turned centerpieces for the SeptemberChallenge:

Jim Barkelew Glynn Cox Bruce Imsande Ron TraylorDavid Baulch Fred Denke Dick Koch David WalkerBrian Begina Tom Echols John Lauderbaugh Bob WigginsJim Bragdon Rick Gauthier Jim McGregor Kelly WootonDavid Carter James Haynes Ronny Roberson Don YorkBob Clark Ron Howe Larry SweeneyShane Collier Bob Igel Pam Thompson

We also held the quarterly drawing with over 45 members havingtickets. Challenge Members participating in this drawing are shown below:

Jeff Allen Mary Clark John Horn Larry SweeneyBobby Bartlett Glynn Cox Ron Howe Steve ThompsonMatt Bashore Wayne Clowers Robert Igel Pam ThompsonDavid Baulch Shane Collier Bruce Imsande David WalkerTom Beatty Fred Denke Sandy Jarrell Kerry WeeksBrian Begina Thomas Echols Richard Kenyon Bob WigginsJim Bragdon Rick Gauthier Dick Koch Scott WisdomCorey Burke Jimmie Gill John Lauderbaugh Kelly WootonKen Cardin Alex Hamrick Jim McGregor Don YorkDavid Carter James Haynes Ray Moyer Roger ChristiansenAlex Hingstrom Ronnie Nusom Bob Clark Bill HoltJeff Robbins

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We had awards to distribute that were either bought by the club ordonated by Rockler, Craft Supplies and Wood World.

The challenge for November is to turn a birdhouse ornament likewhat our demonstrator for October turned. However, any birdhouseornament is acceptable.

Hope to see you Thursday.

Bob Wiggins

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Last Month’s Challenge:— Christmas Banquet Pieces —

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Last Month’s Critique

Each month we have a Critique table where members can bring initems they have turned for a constructive critique of their turning. Weencourage all members, especially members new to turning, to submittheir turnings for critique. One of our members who is recognized asbeing an “expert” turner does the critique. The objective is toprovide constructive input to help members develop their skills. All ofus learn from the critiques.

Below is a list of the turners who participated in September critiqueprocess:

Glynn Cox Larry RobertsRon Howe Ronny RobersonBruce Imsande

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A Look Back: S. Gary Roberts Reflects on Thirty Years with the AAWIn the thirty weeks leading up to AAW's 30th Anniversary Symposium in Atlanta, the AAW is sharing thestories of members who joined in 1986 and are still members today. S. Gary Roberts is the brother of ourclub member Larry Roberts.

Gary Roberts has been working with wood sincethe tender age of five, when his grandfather gave himan old pocket knife. Not unreasonably, his mother andgrandmother worried that he would cut himself.According to Gary, this was not a concern to hisgrandfather, who said, "Yes, he will, and each timehe'll learn to be better at woodcarving."

Some years later, his brother Larry helped himset up a Shopsmith and gave him his first lesson. Healso introduced him to Rude Osolnik, who becameboth mentor and friend to the brothers. "I'm not surewhether I owe all of the praise or all of the fault of mywoodturning obsession to my brother," Gary observes.

During his a career as a commercial Realtor andbusiness consultant, Gary served as president of both

the Austin Commercial Real Estate Society and the Austin Board of Realtors, experience thatwas invaluable in his early role helping to organize the essential legal and business beginningsof the budding AAW.

Along with carving and turning, Gary has other passions: travel and service. He broughtall of four together as a volunteer for the U.S. State Department and the International ExecutiveService Corps, teaching woodworking in developingcountries in connection with the USAID program. He andhis wife, Imagene (Gene) traveled to Russia, Egypt,Ecuador, Africa, Malawi, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Barbados,Australia and many other countries to help people make abetter living for their families.

Once the AAW was formed, Gary and othersrealized that people needed resources close to home, andhe was instrumental in founding the Central TexasWoodturners Association, one of the earliest AAW localchapters. "I promoted the forming of chapters aroundTexas and the Southwest by offering to come do a freedemonstration and furnishing them with copies oforganizational documents," he says. "I made manyenjoyable trips and assisted in forming any number ofChapters in this area and others."

Gary has published articles for many wood-related publications, including FineWoodworking, American Woodworker, Chip-Chats and American Woodturner.He is the author

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of two books on advanced turning techniques, Masterful Woodturning and The Art of FineWoodturning, both published through Sterling.

He has exhibited in several juried shows; his first was 1987's "Vessels and Forms" showin Houston, sponsored by Pete Hutchinson. One of Gary's pieces is used as a teaching aid at theUniversity of Texas School of Architecture and Engineering, and another, representing thebeauty of mesquite, on display in the Chancellor's Office of Texas A&M.

After he retired in 1985, Gary and Gene were able topursue many shared interests. They are serious birdwatchers, andfor ten years were volunteer bird guides with the National ParksService and Texas Parks and Wildlife. They enjoy traveling,boating, fishing, butterflying and consider themselves privilegedto have visited all 50 U.S. states, as well as all 10 Canadianprovinces, and all 31 Mexican states. Often traveling in theirmotor home, they were able to stop to visit local chaptermeetings along the way. Gary didn't have to miss out on anyturning time: he mounted a lathe on the back bumper of theirJamboree.

The Robertses call Austin, Texas home. Theyhave one daughter, four grandchildren, and ninegreat-grandchildren, all of whom live nearby, andbrother Larry lives only a few hours away.

Gary and Gene have recently celebrated their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary, enjoying a"fancy lunch" out at the Dairy Queen. They were high school sweethearts and "still fall in loveeveryday."

What motivated you to join the fledgling AAW?In 1986 I saw a notice in Fine Woodworking magazine that an association of

woodturners was being formed and that those turners interested should contact Bob Rubel at hisphone number in San Marcos,Texas. I live in Austin and had business interests in near-by SanMarcos, holding a staff meeting there weekly. I contacted Bob and arranged a meeting todiscuss the association formation. I offered to help with the business part of bringing theorganization to life.

Rubel said that there had been a meeting at Arrowmont and a few turners had decided totry to form an association. He'd agreed to act as an administrator to get things started. I drafted

Gary's traveling lathe set-upwas featured in Scott Landis'The Workshop Book, in1998.

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a set of bylaws and a basic organizational constitution, and had my attorney prepare anapplication for a Texas corporate charter. I took it myself to the Secretary of State's office herein Austin to be registered. The registration fee was $25.00, and because we had not as yetcollected any membership monies, I paid the fee myself. (I never did get the $25.00 back!) So,the first corporate charter for "The American Association of Woodturners" was issued in Texasin 1986 with Bob Rubel as Administrator.

When you look at your pieces from 1986, what do you see?I had been turning for a few years when the organization was formed. Mostly bowls and

boxes.  Some pretty nice, and some so-so.

If you could give your 30-years-younger self some advice about being a turner what wouldyou say?

As to advice for 30 years ago, I would say that the more you turn, the better you will get,so practice—a lot!

Who or what was your greatest teacher?My greatest teacher and for whom I still hold in the

greatest respect was Rude Osolnik.

What was your funniest turning moment?I don't remember a funniest moment. I guess I

always took turning too seriously.

What was your happiest turning moment?My happiest moment was when I was surprised at the 1998 Symposium by being selected

as an "Honorary Lifetime Member" and presented a plaque by Charles Alvis, AAW President.

What is your favorite wood and why?My favorite wood, by far, is Texas mesquite

because of it's graining and stability.

What do you see as the biggest change in the field?The biggest change in turning is that the

organization had gotten away from basic teaching, ie,teaching basics and is more for the gallery turners.

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Gary has written articles for American Woodturner on everything from matryoshka dolls tomashrabeya to music boxes; from baseballs to pie crimpers to gee-haw whammy doodles. Anexample of one of his pie crimpers is below.

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If you couldn't be a woodturner, what would you doinstead?

I was a woodcarver before I took up the lathe.They are both still my favorite pastimes.

Do you still have American Woodturner back issues? Where do you keep them?Yes, I still have quite a few of the earlier journals. I keep them in my shop and would love to

send them to someone who could use them. I could use the space.

Has being a part of AAW affected your life and work? How?The AAW and the local chapter have provided a wonderful source of friends and

fellowship. I have believed in the function and purpose of the AAW from the day I first heardthe concept until today. I am proud beyond description to have been a small part of its growthand maturity. My morning cup is an AAW mug given to me years ago; it has my name on it andsays "Founding Member."

What's your favorite project/piece?

My favorite piece is "Cinderella's Carriage"that I made in 2002.

Favorite piece turned by another artist?

My favorite piece by another is Rude Osolnik's set ofcandlesticks.

Written by Tib Shaw, AAW.

Reprinted with permission.

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I want to thank our members that completed their Beads of Couragelidded bowls for SWAT.

We have received a lot of compliments for your jobs.

—–- HOWEVER —––-

They still need lidded bowls all year round.

—–- SO —–

If you have one you started, go ahead and finish it and bring it in. Ifyou have not started one, now is a good time to start.

Ron Howe or Ray Moyer can answer your questions and help get youstarted if you need it.

We will be happy to take your lidded bowl to Cooks Children’s in FortWorth. They really like our work.

Do not stop we can still use more.

Great Job to all!

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EMPTY BOWLS

We are making good progress with 52 bowls donated lastmonth for a total of 159. We even had some non-bowl itemsdonated thanks to Roy Steelman with three pen and pencilsets and Bill Meador with a minature bird house ornamentthat his demonstration was based on.

If any of you that are donating bowls want to do someadvertising for your business, Empty Bowls is a goodopportunity. At the Empty Bowls event they hand out goodybags to all the people entering. This includes flyers or cardsfrom various sponsers. If you would like to do this, you needto have 2,000 flyers or business cards ready by 2-1-2017. Ifyou give the flyers to me, I will deliver them to theappropriate person. The Empty Bowls Event is 2-17-2017.

At the meeting this month I will have a sheet for you tosign if you would like a receipt from Tarrant Area Food Bankfor the number of bowls you donated. I will also have thesign up sheet at the Christmas Banquet. You can also bringturning donations to the Christmas Banquet since there is nomeeting in December.

If the person signing bowls with a $ would let me know,I’ll get your name on the list. I don’t have a clue who youare.

If you have any questions or comments let me, RonTraylor, know at randkbiz@msn.com.

Turner's Name Feb2016

Mar2016

Apr2016

May2016

Jun2016

Jul2016

Aug2016

Sep2016

Oct2016 Total

Sandy Jarrell 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 5Anonymous 3 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 9Dick Koch 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 5

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Ron Howe 0 4 4 0 0 1 0 5 5 19Steve Dymond 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2Max Taylor 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3Jim Barkelew 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 7Bill Collins 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1David Baulch 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 21 3 26Cory Burke 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1Kelly Wootton 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 5Jimmy Fife 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1Bill Holt 0 0 0 0 7 0 4 12 3 26Glynn Cox 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 5JohnLauderbaugh 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 6Ron Traylor 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3Bob Wiggins 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1Matt Bashore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1Larry Roberts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1Tom Echols 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 15Ray Moyer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 14David Carter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2Bruce Edwin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1Grand Total 159

Turner's name fornon bowl items

Feb2016

Mar2016

Apr2016

May2016

Jun2016

Jul2016

Aug2016

Sep2016

Oct2016 Total

Roy Steelman 6 6BillMeador(demo) 1 1Grand Total 7

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Name City Specialty

Beasley, John Denton, General turning, Bowls

Boehme, Billy Arlington General turning, BowlsClowers, Wayne Haltom City Bowls, Pens, Lidded vessels, SegmentedCox, Glynn Keller General turning, Tool making

Denke, Fred Fort Worth Bowls, Surface decoration, Inlay

Derczo, Johnny Mansfield Segmented

Horn, John North RichlandHills Fundamentals. Spindles, Bowls, Sharpening

Jarrell, Sandy Fort Worth General turning, BowlsLauderbaugh,John

North RichlandHills Peppermills, Snowmen, Pens, Sharpening

Marshall, Dave Fort Worth General turning

Moyer, Ray Euless Spindles, Boxes, Basics

Roberts, Larry Arlington Basics, Natural Edge VesselsSolberg, John Denton Multi-axis, Ornaments, Bowls, Pens, Tops

Tanksley, Jim Mansfield End grain bowls, Hollowing

Tiefel, Paul Southlake Multi-axis, Hollow forms, Bowls, CoringTkacs, Peter Denton General turning, PeppermillsWiggins, Bob Arlington Bowls

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The Regular Monthly Meetings are held on the last Thursday

of each month at the Handley-Meadowbrook Lions Club, 6013

Craig Street, Fort Worth, TX.

Board meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each

month at Niki’s Italian Bistro, 5237 Davis Blvd. (FM1938) in

North Richland Hills. Check the WNT web site for any updates.

All WNT members are invited to attend. If you would like to

join the group for dinner, it begins at 5:30 PM and the business

meeting starts at 6:30 PM.

WNT WEB SITE: http://www.wntx.org/

Board of Directors

President Glynn Cox Home 817-337-0210Vice President Bob Wiggins Cell 917-690-7131Past President Dave Marshall Cell 817-229-9676Treasurer James Haynes Cell 214-502-9970Librarian Randy Johnson Home 817-795-6018Activities John Horn Home 817-485-7397Newsletter Ron Schiller Home 214-518-6142Secretary Tom Beatty Cell 817-919-6685Audio-Visual Bob Clark Cell 817-304-3318Member-at-Large John Lauderbaugh Cell 817-903-3947

The Woodturners of North Texas newsletter is published monthly. Inputs aredue to the editor by the tenth of each month for inclusion in that month’snewsletter.

With the exception of the Gary Roberts article, WNT gives permission to all other AAWwoodturning chapters, woodworking magazines, and newspapers to use any textmaterial and accompanying photos or drawings contained herein for the benefit ofwoodturners everywhere. We ask that credit be given to the source of the material.WNT logos and graphics may not be copied without permission.

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